GIMP makes me crazy. I vote for Pixia. :) Art is really one of those subjective matters. Some people like Warhol or the Blue Dog series. Some like surrealism or cubism. Some like pin-up art. Some like rendering blue cubes and calling them Blue. As long as everyone is enjoying themselves, what difference does it make. I consider myself an amateur artist, I have a knack for it in traditional media and I'm still working on bringing that through in the 3D Arena. Its all a learning experience. Maybe some of these people are doing just that. Most of us can look at some of our earlier work, regardless of the medium, and say that they would have done this or that differently - added a light here, used a better texture there.

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